<s>
Avalanche	B-Device
is	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
a	O
proposed	O
peer-to-peer	O
(	O
P2P	O
)	O
network	O
created	O
by	O
Pablo	O
Rodriguez	O
and	O
Christos	O
Gkantsidis	O
at	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
which	O
claims	O
to	O
offer	O
improved	O
scalability	B-Architecture
and	O
bandwidth	O
efficiency	O
compared	O
to	O
existing	O
P2P	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
proposed	O
system	O
works	O
in	O
a	O
similar	O
way	O
to	O
BitTorrent	B-Protocol
,	O
but	O
aims	O
to	O
improve	O
some	O
of	O
its	O
shortfalls	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Like	O
BitTorrent	B-Protocol
,	O
Avalanche	B-Device
splits	O
the	O
file	O
to	O
be	O
distributed	O
into	O
small	O
blocks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
technique	O
removes	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
each	O
peer	O
to	O
have	O
complex	O
knowledge	O
of	O
block	O
distribution	O
across	O
the	O
network	O
(	O
an	O
aspect	O
of	O
BitTorrent-like	O
protocols	O
which	O
the	O
paper	O
claims	O
does	B-Architecture
not	I-Architecture
scale	I-Architecture
very	O
well	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bram	O
Cohen	O
,	O
the	O
creator	O
of	O
BitTorrent	B-Protocol
,	O
criticized	O
the	O
proposed	O
Avalanche	B-Device
system	O
in	O
a	O
post	O
to	O
his	O
blog	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
mentions	O
inaccuracies	O
in	O
the	O
paper	O
's	O
analysis	O
of	O
the	O
BitTorrent	B-Protocol
protocol	I-Protocol
(	O
some	O
of	O
it	O
being	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
4-years-out-of-date	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
protocol	O
which	O
used	O
an	O
algorithm	O
that	O
"	O
sucks	O
"	O
)	O
and	O
describes	O
the	O
paper	O
as	O
"	O
garbage.	O
"	O
</s>
